Universities work to alert past and current students to data breach

11:42 PM,
Oct. 15, 2012

Written by

Travis Pillow
Florida Capital Bureau

Hundreds of thousands of past Florida college and university students have not yet been notified that hackers may have accessed their sensitive identifying information, including dates of birth and Social Security numbers.

The Florida Department of Education is trying to track down some 200,000 students who were eligible for Bright Futures Scholarships, many of whom have since graduated, which can make them difficult for officials to reach.

By law, the department has 45 days to notify the students, whose information was compromised as part of a larger data breach at Northwest Florida ...